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The Hit-and-Run Death of Davis McClendon

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A romance is cut short when a man is found dead near his mangled car. His newfound love is convinced it was no accident. Anne-Marie Green reports. This episode last aired on 3/1/2025.

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Greenwood. I lived here half my life. Everyone knows everyone and their business. I have decided to set the story straight. It's still so strong. I still think maybe I'll wake up.

We were out for my birthday. I was just sitting at the bar and he sat down beside me and we just talked to the rest of the night. You were there the night she met David. I was there that night. Did it seem like there was chemistry? I would immediately. David's he was so kind and him and his heart was huge. We enjoyed each other so much. It was amazing six months. Meredith, her and David, they would go in a way weekends a lot. I liked him.

His smile was so contagious and he's just such a sweet guy. I would have never expected this to happen ever.

Greenwood can't be no one. One car, one car, one car wreck. Okay, it was a car wreck. Is somebody in charge?

I pull up right beside David's car and he was in his car and that's why I noticed his airbags were all.

So then also that's why I started looking at the car more and noticed that his entire was smashing. And I remember looking and I noticed there's a body. Meredith just started like screaming like who is it? Who is it? And you look over. What do you think you were looking at? Davis. He was lying there and his head was resting on the floor like a pillow. And he was shirtless and his face was covered in blood. Was there anything about the scene that struck you as odd? Davis being all the way on the other side of the road, the car being wreck.

Like none of that. I couldn't piece anything together. Davis's car was way over there and his body was way down here.

And I was like well howdy and up down here. It's quite a distance. Yeah, clear. It is quite a distance. Originally it came out as a as a possible traffic accident and then once officers arrived, don't say they realized it was more than that. A lot of people think it was an auto accident. Well know it what? I do believe that this was an accident and not an intentional killing. It was a murder. I was in shock. I was like it doesn't even make sense.

The photographs of the crime scenes, the takes messages from Davis's phone, the ring videos, looking at everything and the totality of the case. It was very powerful.

How can any of this possibly happen? There are so many things missing from the story. And once I kind of get that out there, then I can close the chapter. And 1028 whiskey echo Victor 2530. It was May 7th, 2023 just after 1 a.m. When authorities responded to a reported road accident on a secluded dead end street in Greenwood, South Carolina.

We open this off because this is going to be a crime scene. At the edge of the nearby woods, they would find 46-year-old Davis McClendon's body. But what they saw at first was on the road itself.

A shirt, a shoe, and a mangled sedan. And there was significant damage to the thunder. It was a BMW 5 series similar to this one, using to demonstrate the position of the vehicle that night. After first responders had locked everything down, Greenwood County Sheriff's office investigator, Patrick Durkin, arrived to photograph the scene. The front driver's side wheel was turned slightly. Whatever had transpired at this deserted crossroads, Durkin's job was to freeze it in time. First responders had thought Davis McClendon's injuries seemed consistent with having being hit by a vehicle.

Though no other vehicle relating to the collision was there, they'd found Davis's body about 50 feet away from the BMW.

Leading them to suspect he'd been outside his car when he was hit.

Durkin says he noticed some strange damage to the BMW.

Usually when we would think of a normal fender bender, it would just kind of be pressed into it, and this was torn back like a tuna can in the sense. It had made authorities wonder if it was a hit and run or something more sinister. Those airbags were out, and a phone was on the front passenger seat. Durkin saw more debris in the road, but nothing particularly telling. The assumption was that he was struck by a vehicle. Investigator Ronnie Powell from the Greenwood County Sheriff's office says authorities had learned more by speaking to two women at the scene.

Meredith Haney and Meghan McGovern, who called 911, Meghan often babysat for Meredith's three children. They provided statements of what they saw and what had occurred all night long. What did Meredith say? She pretty much gave a summary of the whole backstory that she had been dating Davis. Meredith had told authorities that Davis left a club they'd been in that night. Calling her minutes later from the road, saying he was parked at the intersection of Avid Road and saw grass place.

When he'd put her on hold and then failed to come back on the line, Meredith was worried and got a ride there for Meghan.

It was Meghan, the baby sitter, who'd gotten out of her car and was the first to see Davis's body.

That news must have been stunning. Yes, Davis say it was crushing. Davis McClenton was the ultimate people person without an enemy in the world, say his friends Chip Funderberg. Everybody loved Davis. He was just awesome. Zach Al-Hoon. He loved big and Johnny Coats.

And what is Zach saying he was everyone's best friend? He was. He loved everyone.

But none of them could remember Davis ever mentioning the specifics of his love life, not until he met Meredith Haney.

He told me that he had met somebody and they had just kind of been chatting and enjoying getting to know each other. It seemed like a good thing seemed like a positive thing for sure. Cal Hoon's as Davis had gone through a divorce, but the end of his marriage hadn't done anything to weaken his devotion as a father and a friend, even to the residents of the retirement home where he worked. He was the most empathetic person I've ever met.

More than four months before Davis died on the night of December 23, 2022. Meredith was at that club celebrating her 39th birthday with her best friends. She says they were wearing their worst Christmas sweaters when the handsome stranger struck up a conversation.

Then I think he texted on Christmas day and then the next day and then he just kept on talking.

Until meeting Davis, she says she'd been keeping her head down. Just about six months earlier, she had left her husband of 10 years. A local auto body shop owner named Bud Akerman, and she was struggling to balance parenting their three kids and her job as a grammar school teacher. She says she knew getting involved with someone new would not be easy. Was there any hesitancy about moving forward with this?

They were, I mean, there was.

She says first Davis wanted to make sure she had no intention of reconciling her marriage.

He didn't want to be the reason that, you know, we didn't get our family back together. So we made sure from the get-go that that wasn't going to be an issue. And I just, they just have it. They would have less than six months together.

Could you start to guess what may have happened how it was hit?

The night of Davis's death at the site, investigator Patrick Durkin noticed something beyond the strangeness of the crashed car and Davis's distance from it. There was an oil slick in the road. It's still here. Just over a year later, it's still here, but there was a number of footprints and some tire tracks that were leading away from this oil thing. And what did that tell you when you saw it?

What we knew that there was some type of impact to the vehicle and then we knew there was oil and tire marks that left from here.

It looked like evidence from the vehicle that hit Davis.

You guys are looking around, and you realize the oil continues?

You could see it was very obvious that there was tire marks that had gone back down the road and kind of turned around.

Back where the tire tracks seemed to show a vehicle had turned around. Investigators had found oil spatters on a street light post. It was about maybe this high. And from there, there was a trail of oil that had led down the road into the distance. There are around 130, we are now on the right side. The biggest advantage of shopping for me is that we don't need a technical advantage for the vehicle.

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There was a trail that led from the incident location.

Investigator Ronnie Powell says by the time authorities started following that oil trail from the crash site, they had a solid hunch where it might lead. Davis McLendon's girlfriend, Meredith Haney, had told them she'd suspected where he had been going when he left or at the bar that night. To meet her estranged husband, but acrimon. And it turns out the oily evidence led right to acrimon's parents house.

He'd been living there since separating from Meredith about a year earlier. Sheriff's office. Authorities body cameras were rolling. He's come on to walk up and almost was expecting us. But acrimon and his father were both standing near the garage.

And there's some kids here? Yeah. Who's kids are there? Mine. Yours and who.

My wife. Okay. But had spent the day with his three kids at a local festival. And his wife Meredith had a custody arrangement and it was his night with the kids. But in the driveway authorities noticed his white fort F-250 check-up.

That's wild. With oil leaking from the undercarriage, they also noticed a crack in the grill. And other evidence that suggested the vehicle had hit someone. That's a poem mark. Investigators turned to bud.

You have your idea, honey? Authorities say bud told them he would not answer questions without his lawyer present. But from speaking with Meredith, they learned she had a contentious relationship with her soon to be ex-husband. And came to suspect a jealous bud acrimon had mowed Davis McClendon down. Looking at the scene, they deduced Davis had been standing outside his BMW.

As shown in this CBS News animation based on their investigation, they suspect bud's pickup truck side swipe the sedan and hit Davis, carrying him on the vehicle's grill and depositing his body across the road. Meredith says bud had been upset since reaching out to her days earlier when he found out she was dating Davis. He texted me.

What did he text you?

He said something about Meredith, how could you -- what was your reaction to that text?

I think it was hurt. Like I was -- I felt bad because I just don't like to hurt people. I don't like people to be hurt. So I felt bad. What had begun years earlier as a promising marriage that would bear three kids had fallen apart. He was a good father. He was a really good dad. Bud was from a prominent local family and he was a business owner.

But Meredith says his work had become stressful. I started to notice like some depression and things like that.

That I'd never seen before.

She says he started drinking a lot and the more he drank,

She says the more unpredictable he became.

There was screaming, casting, you felt threatened. Absolutely.

Meredith says he never laid a hand on her,

but destroyed her sense of self.

The house was never clean enough.

There were never enough groceries. It was so loud and vulgar. It was very degrading. Then she says she noticed her husband was starting to become paranoid. She remembers being in her closet one day and noticing a strange pillow.

They had cut a hole in it. According to Meredith, there was a hidden camera inside. And then I started finding more of them. What other places did you find cameras? There was one hidden in our dresser that faced the bed,

found one in a bush in the front yard.

He put him in all the kids' rooms.

She says that was the last straw. They separated in the spring of 2022. I could breathe. I could be me again.

Meredith says the separation seemed to help but too

that he'd stop drinking and kept going to church with her and the kids. But by then she decided it was too late. When I was done, I was done. And starting again with someone new seemed like a distant dream Meredith says until that night, Davis McClendon sawntered up and sat down in her life.

They tried to keep things low key at first.

Meredith says she never wanted to rub but knows in it.

So what did you all do? We would go out of town. But Meredith says they knew they couldn't sneak around forever and it had started seeming like her new relationship with Davis was a forever kind of thing. We talked about sitting on the porch and rocking chairs that 80.

It was just a different kind of relationship. But after bud found out there were new complications. Take news you have cheating.

Yeah, even though you were weeks away from your divorce, right?

Meredith says bud actually called Davis and asked him to back off until the divorce was official. What was Davis's reaction to that request? I think he agreed that then we talked about it. And decided that was just giving him another little piece of control. And on the night, Davis died, she says bud seemed out of control.

Back at his parents' house investigators now had a warrant and were finding more clues that acrimon had been at the crash site. Early foot print. Early foot print. At about 6.30 a.m. on May 7th, 2023.

But acrimon was arrested. He would be charged with the murder of Davis McClendon. We think there's enough evidence at the scene to prove of what occurred. So, by the end of the night, you already have someone in custody. Yes.

What's left to do? But that's just the beginning. Because it turns out bud acrimon did have a story to tell. He says Davis was standing near the middle of a dark road, approximately shown in this CBS News animation. But says he didn't see Davis until it was too late that hitting him had been an accident.

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[MUSIC] Investigators are confident they could prove that Aquaman's truck had hit and killed Davis McClendon. But they knew proving Aquaman had done it on purpose. It might be harder.

Billion case starts from that night.

And when investigators looked at that night, they learned that Aquaman had been tracking. Had been tracking Davis and Meredith's whereabouts for hours. He was trying to find him that night. And that he was was not happy about the soul situation. Using security video, phone records, and even data from Bud's own truck.

Authorities built a timeline. They began with Meredith's phone. Who took it Matthew Womack of the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office. We were able to extract the information such as the calls and the text. A slew of calls and text messages Bud had made to Meredith leading up to the collision.

At 8.54 pm, Bud texts Meredith. Why do you hate me? I just don't understand. She doesn't respond to him. She's out with Davis at a local restaurant.

We went to dinner. At break on the lake. When you see Davis and Meredith having dinner. And being interrupted by Bud's attempts to reach her. What was the FaceTime conversation like?

Where are you? Who are you with? Why are you doing this to me?

Did you tell him where you were? I feel like it at some point in the conversation either. He could tell where I was because of what's around me.

Or I finally did tell him.

What was one of the other? So at that point, he knows that you're out with Davis. While Meredith continued her date with Davis, security cameras catch Bud Acrement at 10.40 pm. Arriving at a popular Greenwood Club called Key West.

You can see Bud. He's talking to people interacting. Consumer Alcohol. The video shows Bud spent about an hour and a half at Key West. Then called Meredith again. How did he sound on the phone?

He got seduced. What's an intoxicated Bud sound like?

Vogueur. Soon after midnight, Acrement had left Key West. About a half hour later, camera show Bud's trucks circling in front of break on the lake. But by then, Meredith and Davis were no longer at the restaurant. You can see his vehicle drive through the parking lot.

It's a little conformal. Lieutenant Womax says before long, investigators would learn just how far Bud Acrement had gone that night to find Meredith and Davis. Though Acrement himself wasn't talking,

critical information would emerge from another digital witness, his truck.

It's a box about this big that goes into the backside of the dash. Womax says in some cars and trucks, the infotainment systems, as they're known, store detailed information about how the vehicles are being driven. We're in a similar model to Bud's Ford F-250 pickup. So on Bud's vehicle, they were able to pull a significant amount of information. This is just a little snippet.

You're talking just in a 24-hour time period, it's over 3,000 events. Events including snap measurements of speed, acceleration and break pressure. Bud's onboard computer even pinged public Wi-Fi's at past. Investigators learned that Bud had actually driven by Meredith's house and onto Davis McClendon's street that night. But while he was driving around, looking for them,

ironically, they had moved to the Key West club he had just left. When Davis decides to call Bud, he walked out the back of the bar. It was 12.51 a.m. A few minutes past and I went out there to check on him, newscom. Did he think he could bring the temperature down?

Um, record show Davis called her minutes later and what was that conversation?

Where are you? And that's when he told me that he was going to meet Bud. Well, Max says other info-tainment system data show that at a bit past one in the morning, Davis and Bud had their fatal encounter.

We can tell there was actually an event that 11.

They say acrimon hit the brakes hard.

We can near it down to 10th of seconds of when the collision occurred. And according to the computer, seconds after the collision, acrimon's truck had stopped. At that point, I'm Bud's open in the door. He opens the door before he shifts it to park. Well, Max thinks acrimon got out of his truck,

which was probably leaking from the collision.

Remember that puddle of oil in the road near the victim?

Then he closes the door, then he gets back in. And then it's shifted to drive at that point time. Then, say authorities, acrimon turns his truck around near the lamp post, roughly as you see in this CBS news demonstration based on their investigation.

He then drives away, leaking an oil trail all the way to his parents' driveway.

Right here his phone becomes unavailable, the ignition turned off, and it disconnected from his device. What does that tell you? That's when he got home and got out. It started to paint a very clear picture.

But acrimon's attorney Jack Swirling paints a different picture. I don't think he intended to run Davis McClendon Award. There's no indication that he's aggressive or violent individual. Sure, it's obvious.

Nor says Whirling, is there much to indicate his client was drunk that night?

Can I get you to sit with me over here, Paul McClason?

None of the cops who arrested him reported he seemed tipsy.

The only one that said he was intoxicated was Meredith. Was he stalking them that night? I think he was trying to find out, confirmed that they were together. He wanted to talk to her. According to Swirling, Meredith and Davis had betrayed McClendon's promised to bud,

to stand down until the acrimon's marriage was officially over. She couldn't wait another month. And she's out with this guy and she's cheating on her husband. They are still legally married. South Carolina Law calls that adultery.

And Swirling says the night Davis died. He let bud acrimons repeat it calls and text messages to Meredith get under his skin.

Davis got upset about it and that's what led to them having his meeting.

But it was thought they were going to meet and talk. He says bud had suggested an innocent and safe place for it to happen. They were supposed to meet a bud's parents house which is about half a mile from that location. Swirling says acrimons children were sleeping there that night. So, attacking Davis would have been the last thing on his client's mind.

He wouldn't meet at your parents house if you were angry and threatening a bready to kill somebody. He says it was Davis who selected the deserted intersection as a new location. And remember how Davis was found without his shirt on that night? Well, Swirling says he believes Davis took it off to prepare for a confrontation. He was ready to fight.

Swirling insists bud acrimon meant no harm that night. And bud is about to tell that story to a jury. You're gay. William Greyhacker, I'm a engineer. I'm also a good bad bud.

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We are on the record in the state versus William bud acrimon. Prosecutors are determined to prove it was no accident that bud acrimon hit Davis McClendon the night he died. So in September of 2024, assistant attorney's general John Conrad and John Metters. He intentionally drove his car into the body of Davis McClendon. Start the case off with a bang.

And that's what this case is about. They'll argue acrimon couldn't stand the fact that his estranged wife was seeing someone. And bud was searching for Meredith and Davis all over town. But acrimon was not going to let Davis McClendon be with Meredith. That's your house right there.

That's her. Metters and Conrad lead with their strongest evidence. There are actually timestamp videos from the neighbor's doorbell cameras at the moment of the crash that killed Davis.

It shows what they say is bud's Ford F250 driving through the frame.

Seconds later on the video, what sounds like a crash.

And seconds after that, a series of muffled sounds. What did you hear? I heard somebody yelling. Prosecutors argue it's bud acrimon's voice yelling at Davis McClendon after running him down. What it sounded like to me was...

What do you want to talk about now? But yelling unheavenly expected he said to Davis as he was lying on the ground. I think he was glad he was dead. But but acrimon's defense attorney Jack Swirling argues the audio is too garbled to prove anything. I'd listen to it several times now.

And while I don't believe you could conclude the 100% that is that, if what he said. The prosecutor then calls Meghan McGovern. The acrimon's babysitter and friend to describe the moment she'd seen Davis's body through traumatized teenage dies.

He had blood coming out of his ears and his nose.

And I'm not exactly sure if he was coming out of his mouth or not. Because I mean, there's just blood everywhere from his nose and everything. But their star witness is the woman at the center of both men's affection, Meredith Haney, who testifies with the date night security videos as a guide. Is that you?

Yes, sir. She tells the jury but acrimon called her when she and Davis were at break on the lake. Did you think he was trying to find it? I did worry, yes.

And kept calling after they got to Key West Club.

Is that a call from the Finnabun acrimon? Yes, sir. Did you reject that call? Yes. It's 18 seconds later.

You get another call. Yes, sir.

What would you think about all these calls coming in?

I was getting very frustrated and angry. And just it was getting obsessive and it was getting scary. And she says by the time Davis McLinton left her at the Key West Club after midnight. And is that Davis McLinton leaving the ball? Yes.

She was worried but might be volatile. So when Davis later called to tell her he was going to meet with acrimon, she says she wanted to go check on the situation in person. And makes clear to the jury that when she saw the scene, she had little doubt who killed her boyfriend.

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would have ever killed somebody would have been to the jury. Objection, don't don't go. The judge sustains the defenses objection, but Meredith continues. I was scared that he was still out there. Okay, I messed the swirling.

You need to cross examine it. All right, real court. Don't step down, man. You're out of the stake all the specialties of Brian Hoodack. Digital forensics expert Brian Hoodack tells the jury about data

in the infotainment system of acrimon's pick-up, including some that show but was driving in exactly the right place. In Greenwood, the intersection of David and Salgris. At exactly the right time. Between 1131 and 1132.

To be implicated in the deadly collision. He suggests they can even tell the moment of impact.

There's something that causes his truck to de-xalering very quickly, correct?

Correct. And Hoodack says the evidence shows acrimon was going 25 miles per hour. In the amount of detail that that truck had on what bud did that night is simply breathtaking. Four vehicles on their own side, they're ready when it strikes the BMW.

Collision reconstruction expert Corp. Christopher Ratcher testifies the dent show bud speeding pick-up side-swipes Davis's BMW sedan. As shown in that CBS news animation, based on the prosecution's theory. They say bud was aiming at Davis, who was standing near the driver's door

when he was hit. And that the truck kept going with Davis on the grill until he fell off where authorities found him. But Jack's swirling argues much of the same evidence shows hitting Davis was an accident. We maintain that Mr. Acrimon did not intentionally in this case.

He says bud acrimon had no idea Davis was standing outside his car and calls auto forensic expert Jonathan Nelson to testify that given acrimon's speed in the dark over a slope in the road and into the parked BMW's headlight beams, he wouldn't have seen Davis McClendon standing in the road until at most, two and a half seconds before the collision.

But when a person had sufficient opportunity to avoid him back,

I think the most people would have little to no opportunity to begin to try t...

And swirling says Davis wasn't standing right next to his car when he was hit,

but further out towards the center of the road,

and that acrimon swirved to his left into the BMW to get around him. As shown in this CBS News animation, based on the defense's theory. You've tried to avoid hitting him. Wouldn't you swirved the other way? Why he can go right? I can't answer that.

Swirling knows there may be only one person who can. I call bud acrimon. Acrimon's attorney begins by trying to show the jury his client was Meredith's long suffering but devoted husband. Did you love her? I didn't hear much.

He admits he was angry at Meredith, but says he only wanted to talk to her, and agreed to meet Davis to talk to him too. Do you have any intention to hurt him? I did not. Acrimon says he hadn't realized how fast he was going,

and that he was only trying to pull up next to Davis to talk and didn't see McClendon standing in the road until the last moment.

What action did you take if any to avoid hitting the person?

I jerked my truck as hard as I could to the left to try to hear his car stop the motion and my truck from going forward. But on cross-examination, he admits something that undercuts his claims

of innocence that night. He had never called 911.

I panicked. He panicked. Instead, he left the scene and drove to his parents house and told them what had happened. But they never called authorities either. I've seen so many people react in abnormal ways.

In all the cases I've handled, I've come to expect those kind of things. In closings, prosecutor-meters argues acrimon is a murderer with a truck as his weapon. This might as well be a drive-by shooting with the gun. Andy says the Ford pickups infotainment system proves it.

This is but strength. This is malice. This is intent that state has not proven that Mr. Acumen acted with malice or the intent. It's the highest possible bar and the defense insists the state has not proven its case.

The Mr. Acumen is entitled to a verdict of not guilty. This is judgment day. It's verdict day.

You never know what a jury's going to be.

I told people making this decision. Have you reached a verdict in this case? Ladies and gentlemen, it's my understanding that the jury has reached a verdict. For the Acumen jury, six days of testimony and evidence, boiled down to a deliberation less than a half hour long.

Side of South Carolina versus William Gray-Bud, acrimon?

Did you have a feeling about what that verdict might be? Yeah, quick verdict like that is not good. Not good. We the jury unanimously find the defendant guilty. But acrimon is guilty of the murder of Davis McClendon. It was a right verdict.

I mean, I thought it would be fast, not that fast. Not just fast, but too fast to be thought through. Says but acrimon's attorney, Jack Swirling. I don't think the jury considered everything that was presented to him. They need a lot of time to stay over the evidence evidence was clear and obvious.

Damning evidence of what but acrimon did say Davis McClendon's friends

and equally damning evidence they say of what but acrimon never did.

Our friend laid there in the road. They still can't wrap their head around why nobody in the acrimon family ever called 911. Somebody should have done the right thing. At sentencing right after the verdict, Davis McClendon's son demands accountability from the acrimons. It is time for this spoiled, evil individual and the spoiled, evil family in Greenwood

To finally gain some repercussions for their actions.

Thank you.

Lots been said about why we didn't call 911.

But acrimon's father tries to explain his own lack of action.

By saying he was too disoriented to know what to do at that hour of the night when his son woke him with the news. The judge's sentence is devastating to the defendant. A statement if you please answer. Since the court is a statement, you'd be committed to state apartment corrections

period of 45 years. It looks like the end of the road for but acrimon. I know that where he is is where he's supposed to be.

But it may allow for a new beginning for Meredith Haney.

That was worried then.

He only got five or ten years that I'd never get to start a new life,

because I'd be scared for when he got out. With their father unlikely to get out of prison for decades, she's determined to spare her children from the impact of that horrible night. As a single mom, she leans on friends and family. How are the kids doing?

Mom, make it good. Looking back, she believes but acrimon really wanted to target her that night

and that she's only alive because he found Davis McClendon first.

They've saved my life.

You really feel that way?

Absolutely. If true, Meredith Haney owes her life however challenging to the new man she had once hoped to share it with. How would you like Davis to be remembered? As a hero, for the way he treated people,

for his empathy, for his heart. He was just a good person. But acrimon is not eligible for parole, and is expected to be released in 268. Acrimon is appealing this conviction.

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